When Niggaz Love Revolution! (Like They Love the Bulls) by Tyembe Jus

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Youth will wear red, black, and green patches over the emblems on their Starter jackets.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Brothers will gather regularly at barbershops and corner-stops to discuss George Jackson, The Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, and People's War before they go home to take care of their children each night.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Playground basketball courts will become paramilitary training grounds where we learn to shoot guns at the enemy -- and not baskets for Beck's.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

We will spend hours and hours watching our children grow into soldiers and not basketball players.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

We will know CIA stats, FBI stats, infant mortality stats, police brutality stats, political prisoners and prisoners of war, and literacy training techniques like we know Paxton's shoe size, or Shaq's shoe size, or the way we know Rodman's or Pippen's rebounds, or Grant's salary, and all the intimate details of Michael's last gambling spree.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

You will be able to ask any youth on the street,

"Who is Sundiata Acoli?"

"Who is Assata Shakur?"

"Who is [???]?" "Who is [???] and Jonathan Jackson?"

You will be able to ask, "Who is Mutulu Shakur,

Who is Queen Mother Moore?"

They will be able to tell you without skipping a beat.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

You will go on to ask them about Michael Jordan and they will say, "Who?"

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Masses of us will go down to tear up [???] Carolina coroner and his office to find out what really happened to James Jordan instead of waiting on the word of news papers and sheriff's offices.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

We will show up in Washington D.C. with the Million Man March with our God and with our guns.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

They will start to seriously wonder why one negro putting a brown ball through a white net makes more men money in one season than they will make in an entire lifetime -- and do something about it.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

You will see Phil Jackson running up and down an empty court minutes before game time screaming, "Where are my niggers? Where are my niggers? Where are my niggers?" As the niggers leave the stadium to go build liberation schools in their community.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

All niggers will refuse to shoot ball with the president, with or without their dashikis on.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Swish! -- will become associated with the sound of CIA agents, snitches, rats, and agent provocateurs who join our organizations and work against the legitimate aspirations of our people who yearn to breath free, drug dealers and others will make as they are thrown into gracefully face first into open manholes.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

Nike will no longer be able to sell $160 basketball shoes in the Black community because we would rather spend the money on liberation and revolution -- thank-you.

When niggers love revolution like they love the Bulls,

They will love it. They will love it more than [???], more than All My Children,

more than Jheri curls, more than permanents,

more than Cadillacs and Mercedes Benz and Rolls Royces and BMWs, cars.